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I wanted a switch+router capable of 10 gigabit speeds and everything in the market was expensive. So I got a commodity PC ($400 Dell PowerEdge T30), put Linux
by trollbridge 3y ago
I wanted a switch+router capable of 10 gigabit speeds and everything in the market was expensive.
So I got a commodity PC ($400 Dell PowerEdge T30), put Linux on it, and then stuffed it with a 4 port 2.5GbE card (X8 slot, $150), a 2 port 10GbE card (X16 slot, $150), and a 4 port 1GbE card (cheap). Plus the built in 1GbE port.
It is capable of routing to the Internet at 2.5Gb speed just fine and then switching the rest of the ports at 10Gb speed. Getting a dedicated router/switch with this many ports would have been north of $1000, and probably a lot more of a nuisance to administer/maintain than Linux.
- Sayrus 3y agoHow does such a solution compare in term of energy consumption? A difference of 100W can easily cost $1000 over the life of the device. But it's definitely way easier to manage than the interfaces offered by Cisco / HPE.
- nubinetwork 3y agoIf the specs page is correct... 290w max, and the CPUs are 70w tdp each.
- teleforce 3y agoThis network appliance is an integrated device suitable for your needs albeit the price is USD2K+ with 6x1GbE, 2x10GbE [1]. Being an Intel Atom Denverton C3000 based platform it can also support SR-IOV that is good for virtualization of NICs participating in cloud computing with Kubernetes [2]. [1] IEI PUZZLE-IN003B: https://www.ieiworld.com/en/product/model.php?II=692 https://www.ieiworld.com/en/product/model.php?II=692 [2] Single-root input/output virtualization (SR-IOV): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-root_input/output_virtualization https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-root_input/output_vir...
- trollbridge 3y agoMy device ended up with 6x1GbE, 4x2.5GbE, 2x10GbE. Since it’s a general purpose computer (some cheap Xeon plus 64GB RAM plus SSDs), it could perform other workloads too.
- klowner 3y agoI'm a huge fan of Mikrotik, these are around $600 https://mikrotik.com/product/crs312_4c_8xg_rm https://mikrotik.com/product/crs312_4c_8xg_rm
- trollbridge 3y agoI’m a big fan of them too! That was the closest thing I found to my price point and interestingly was the same chipset (Intel i225 2.5Gb NICs).